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 [Old Hickory's Weblog] Was it really "Fitzmas" on Friday?: Wilson doesn't appear to be especially concerned that Libby is not being charged under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, although he doesn't seem to have any more idea than the lay aficionados of the case why he wasn't. (I'm taking it for granted that the notion that Plame wasn't really undercover has been banned to the darker caves of Wingnuttia, but who knows?)

 [The Black Kettle] Crossing the Rubicon: Bush will have to cross the Rubicon on judicial nominations, politicized indictments, Iraq, the greater Middle East, and the constant frenzy of the Howard Dean wing of the Democratic party ”” and now march on his various adversaries as never before. He can choose either to be nicked and slowly bled to death in his second term, or to bare his fangs and like some cornered carnivore start slashing back.

 [The Discerning Texan] VDH: Time for Bush to "cross the Rubicon": Once we went into Iraq, in the long run there was no living with either Assad or a nuclear Iranian theocracy ”” and both autocracies grasped that fact far better than we did, as evidenced by the constant stream of terrorists flooding in to kill Americans and undermine Iraqi democracy. The more we jawbone them, pressure them, and isolate them now, the less likely it is that we will have to use force later.

 [Bookworm Room] I want the President to go for broke: In a stand up and cheer kind of column, Hanson envisions a President who stops playing little political games and openly states what he stands for: a strict constructionist on the Supreme Court; the end of Arab-on-Arab tyranny in the Middle East, with all the worldwide fallout that creates;

 [ninme] Georgeus Bushius Caesar: Bush will have to cross the Rubicon on judicial nominations, politicized indictments, Iraq, the greater Middle East, and the constant frenzy of the Howard Dean wing of the Democratic party ”” and now march on his various adversaries as never before. He can choose either to be nicked and slowly bled to death in his second term, or to bare his fangs and like some cornered carnivore start slashing back.

 [Chrenkoff.blogspot.com] Chrenkoff: And in the media, by any fair historical measure, the blogs, call-in radio, and cable news, are far more the vox populi than Dan Rather, Bill Moyers, the New York Times, NPR, CNN, and the CBS””the old reformers, who are now dull, timid, arrogant, huffing and puffing about "standards" and "being degreed" as they do some questionable things.

[Victorhanson.com] Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers: Unfortunately as you will see, although Victor was asked to argue the negative ("no, we are not an empire") and Ms. Huffington the affirmative ("yes, we are an empire") in each of their 25-minute formal presentations (with respective 15-minute rebuttals following), after Victor's opening explanation of why America is hardly an empire in any sense of the word, Ms.

 [Antiwar.com] Anyone Catch VD Last Night?: Iraqi Nuke Scientists Accuse US | Libertarian 'Purity Test' >> ... I'm referring, of course, to Victor Davis Hanson's two hour appearance on C-Span's Book ...

[Blog.vdare.com] VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Victor Davis Hanson: Something about ...: Sadly, it appears that Harry Truman’s famous aphorism has to be applied to Victor Davis Hanson, the classicist and Iraq war cheerleader. Hanson has just realized that not all the attention he has been getting is the credulously sycophantic fawning he appears to expect.

 [Nationalreview.com] The Corner on National Review Online: But if Hugh was right—since this seems to be a day for picking fights with friends—then Victor Davis Hanson was wrong. “This is the first time,” Victor writes elsewhere on this site, “that an American president has committed the United States to side with democratic reformers worldwide.” But Bush’s statement—that we’re on the side of democracy around the world short of the use of arms—has in one form or another been made by lots of presidents, including, for example, the Gipper and JFK.

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